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Tuesday, October 1 • 11:00am - 12:00pm
Spatial Analysis for Community Health - AICP/CM Approved 1.0

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This session reviews various spatial analyses related to community health impacts, including overall health equity and drug deaths on a county level across the US. Both presentations use various types of spatial analysis to identify clustering among the data to identify hotspots and potential target areas for focusing community efforts for education and assistance.

  • Mapping Attitudes towards Health Equity and Justice Using the Max-P Algorithm
    Peter Herman, Research Methodologist and Ned English, Senior Research Methodologist, NORC at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • Death By Drugs: A Spatio-temporal Analysis of Drug Epidemic in the U.S.
    Navya Tripathi, Student, Buchholz High School, Gainesville, FL

Moderators
avatar for Bernadette de Leon, GISP

Bernadette de Leon, GISP

Director, School of Public Health-Bloomington IT Services, Indiana University, Bloomington
Bernadette de Leon has been a certified GISP since 2013. In her job as IT director at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (SPH-B), she supports academic computing as well as spatial analysis for researchers. Additionally, she has developed and taught undergraduate... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Peter Herman

Peter Herman

Research Methodologist, NORC at the University of Chicago
Peter Herman is a Research Methodologist at NORC at the University of Chicago. Herman has considerable experience in data analysis, geographic information systems (GIS), data visualization and web design. He has served as the lead programmer on several NORC interactive data tools... Read More →
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Ned English

Senior Research Methodologist, NORC at the University of Chicago
Ned English is a Senior Research Methodologist with considerable experience geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analyses, sample design, global positioning systems, and data analysis. Ned is responsible for the Geographic Information GIS capacity at NORC, in addition to... Read More →
avatar for Navya Tripathi

Navya Tripathi

Student, Buchholz High School
Navya Tripathi is a 10th-grade student at Buchholz High School in Gainesville, Florida. There she is a member of the prestigious Buchholz Math Team, which has won 12 national convention titles including the 2019 title where Navya competed in Las Vegas this past summer. Her interests... Read More →

Spatial Analysis for Community Health pdf
Tuesday October 1, 2019 11:00am - 12:00pm
Salon 22, 1st Floor
  GIS Supporting Health and Human Services